By Professor Megan Jane Davis

Journal articles

Davis M, 2023, 'Voice of reason: On recognition and renewal', Quarterly Essay, 90, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.103084876217804

Appleby G; Brennan S; Davis M, 2023, 'Comment: A First Nations Voice and the exercise of constitutional drafting', Public Law Review, 34, pp. 3 - 9

Anderson P; Davis M; Freeman T; Baum F, 2023, 'A constitutional Voice in parliament would improve the health of Aboriginal Australians', BMJ, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p1828

Moodie N; Ward J; Dudgeon P; Adams K; Altman J; Casey D; Cripps K; Davis M; Derry K; Eades S; Faulkner S; Hunt J; Klein E; McDonnell S; Ring I; Sutherland S; Yap M, 2021, 'Roadmap to recovery: Reporting on a research taskforce supporting Indigenous responses to COVID-19 in Australia', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 56, pp. 4 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.133

Easteal S; Arkell RM; Balboa RF; Bellingham SA; Brown AD; Calma T; Cook MC; Davis M; Dawkins HJS; Dinger ME; Dobbie MS; Farlow A; Gwynne KG; Hermes A; Hoy WE; Jenkins MR; Jiang SH; Kaplan W; Leslie S; Llamas B; Mann GJ; McMorran BJ; McWhirter RE; Meldrum CJ; Nagaraj SH; Newman SJ; Nunn JS; Ormond-Parker L; Orr NJ; Paliwal D; Patel HR; Pearson G; Pratt GR; Rambaldini B; Russell LW; Savarirayan R; Silcocks M; Skinner JC; Souilmi Y; Vinuesa CG; Baynam G, 2020, 'Equitable Expanded Carrier Screening Needs Indigenous Clinical and Population Genomic Data', American Journal of Human Genetics, 107, pp. 175 - 182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.06.005

Appleby G; Davis M, 2019, 'First Nations Voice', Company Director, 35, pp. 37 - 39, ttps://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/agispt.20200128023675

Appleby G; Davis M, 2018, 'The Uluru Statement and the Promises of Truth', Australian Historical Studies, 49, pp. 501 - 509, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2018.1523838

Davis M; Dixon R, 2016, 'Constitutional recognition through a (justiciable) duty to consult? Towards entrenched and judicially enforceable norms of Indigenous consultation', Public Law Review, 27, pp. 255 - 263

Davis MJ, 2016, 'Listening but not hearing: When process trumps substance', Griffith Review, pp. 73 - 87, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.858555546614151

Davis MJ, 2015, 'Australia's Reconciliation Process In Its International Context: Recognition And The Health & Wellbeing Of Australia's Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples', Australian Indigenous Law Review, 18, pp. 56 - 66, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AUIndigLawRw/2015/15.html

Davis MJ, 2015, 'Closing the Gap in Indigenous Disadvantage: A Trajectory of Indigenous Inequality in Australia', Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 16, pp. 34 - 44, https://www.jstor.org/stable/43773665

Davis MJ, 2015, 'Indigenous Constitutional Recognition from the Point of View of Self-Determination and Its Exercise Through Democratic Participation', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 8, pp. 10 - 14, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2015/33.html

Davis MJ, 2015, 'Seventh Annual Michael Kirby Lecture: Indigenous Australians and the Constitutional Project: The politics of discrimination and why 'recognition' is not enough', Southern Cross University Law Review, 17, pp. 3 - 18, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/SCULawRw/2015/1.html

Brennan S; Davis M, 2014, 'Koowarta: constitutional landmark, transition point or missed opportunity?', Griffith Law Review, 23, pp. 79 - 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2014.944008

Davis MJ, 2014, 'Competing notions of constitutional 'recognition': truth and justice or living 'off the crumbs that fall off the white Australian tables'?', Papers on Parliament, pp. 113 - 129, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/agispt.20150108

Davis MJ, 2014, 'Comments: Future challenges on the path to constitutional recognition of Indigenous peoples', Public Law Review, 25, pp. 233 - 233

McGlade H; Davis MJ, 2014, 'The Royal Commission and International Child Rights Law', Indigenous Law Bulletin, pp. 19 - 22, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2014/28.html

Davis MJ, 2013, 'Comments: Speaking ill of the dead: A comment on s 25 of the Constitution', Public Law Review, 23, pp. 231 - 231

Davis MJ, 2013, 'Community Control And The Work Of The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation: Putting Meat On The Bones Of the UNDRIP', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 8, pp. 11 - 14, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2013/27.html

Davis MJ, 2012, 'Aboriginal Women: The Right to Self-Determination [2012 Narrm Oration]', Australian Indigenous Law Review, 16, pp. 78 - 88, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AUIndigLawRw/2012/6.html

Davis MJ, 2012, 'Constitutional Recognition Does Not Foreclose On Aboriginal Sovereignty', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 8, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2012/25.html

Davis MJ, 2011, 'A Reflection on the Limitations of the Right of Self-Determination and Aboriginal Women', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 7, pp. 6 - 8, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2011/9.html

Davis MJ, 2011, 'Constitutional Reform and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: Why do We Want it Now?', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 7, pp. 8 - 22, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2011/33.html

Davis MJ; Lemezina , 2010, 'Indigenous Australians and the Preamble: Towards a More Inclusive Constitution or Entrenching Marginalisation?', The University of New South Wales law journal, 33, pp. 239 - 266, https://www.unswlawjournal.unsw.edu.au/article/indigenous-australians-and-the-preamble-towards-a-more-inclusive-constitution-or-entrenching-marginalisation

Davis MJ, 2009, 'ATSIC and Indigenous Women: Lessons for the Future', Balayi: culture, law and colonialism, 10, pp. 73 - 86, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.201000213

Davis MJ, 2009, 'A woman's place', Griffith Review, 24, pp. 156 - 162, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200905040

Davis MJ, 2009, 'Indigenous Struggles in Standard-Setting: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples', Melbourne Journal of International Law, 9, pp. 439 - 471, https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/1683219/Davis.pdf

Davis MJ, 2009, 'International Human Rights Law, Women's Rights and the Intervention', Indigenous Law Bulletin, pp. 11 - 11, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2009/2.html

Davis MJ, 2008, 'Indigenous Rights and the Constitution: Making the Case for Constitutional Reform', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 7, pp. 6 - 8, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.395672126281897

Davis MJ, 2008, 'Indigenous Women's Representation and the Proposal for a New National Representative Body', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 7, pp. 6 - 9, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2008/11.html

Davis MJ; Brennan S, 2007, 'A narrative of exclusion: Indigenous rights in Australia', Human Rights Defender, 16, pp. 15 - 17, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/HRD/2007/7.html

Davis MJ, 2007, 'Aboriginal or Institutional Silence?: A Brief Comment on the National Emergency Response to the Anderson Wild Report', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 6, pp. 2 - 3, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2007/41.html

Davis MJ, 2007, 'Election 2007: Indigenous policy – unfinished business', Australian Review of Public Affairs, Digest, November 2007, http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2007/election/davis.html

Davis MJ, 2007, 'How Do Aboriginal Women Fare in Australia Democracy?', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 6, pp. 9 - 11, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2007/27.html

Davis MJ, 2007, 'Parliamentary Inquiries Into Free Trade Agreements and Indigenous Issues', Journal of Indigenous Policy, 7, pp. 90 - 98, https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/JlIndigP/2007/10.html

Davis MJ, 2007, 'The Challenges of Indigenous Women in Liberal Democracies', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 7, pp. 20 - 22, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2007/62.html

Davis MJ, 2007, 'The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Law and International Law Developments', Indigenous Peoples: Issues in International and Australian Law, Martin Place Papers No. 6, 2007, pp. 25 - 30, https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-social-justice/publications/indigenous-peoples

Davis MJ, 2007, 'The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples', Australian Indigenous Law Review, 11, pp. 55 - 63, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AUIndigLawRw/2007/69.html

Davis M, 2007, 'The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 6, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2007/50.html

Davis MJ; Watson N, 2006, '"It's the same old song": Draconian Counter-Terrorism Laws and the Déjà Vu of Indigenous Australians', Borderlands E-Journal: new spaces in the humanities, 5, https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/1551#

Davis MJ, 2006, 'A Culture of Disrespect: Indigenous Peoples and Australian Public Institutions', The UTS Law Review, 8, pp. 136 - 154, https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UTSLawRw/2006/9.html

Davis MJ, 2006, 'International Trade, The World Trade Organisation and the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples', Balayi: culture, law and colonialism, pp. 5 - 30, http://hdl.handle.net/10453/1541

Davis MJ, 2006, 'Treaty, yeah? The utility of a treaty to advancing reconciliation in Australia', Alternative Law Journal, 31, pp. 127 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969X0603100304

Davis MJ, 2005, 'International Trade Law and Indigenous Peoples: A New Direction in Human Rights Advocacy', Australian Indigenous Law Reporter, 9, pp. 16 - 22, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AUIndigLawRpr/2005/20.html

Davis MJ, 2004, 'Indigenous Australia and the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 5, pp. 20 - 23, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2004/19.html

Davis MJ, 2003, 'Civics education and human rights', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 9, pp. 236 - 255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2003.11911099

Davis MJ, 2003, 'New Developments in International Advocacy: Amicus Curiae and the World Trade Organisation', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 5, pp. 14 - 17, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2003/28.html

Davis M, 2002, '‘Rights reluctance’: Utilitarianism and the future of human rights in Australia', Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs, Digest, 21 Mar 2002, http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2002/03/davis.html

Davis MJ; Williams G, 2002, 'A Statutory Bill of Rights for Australia? Lessons from the United Kingdom', University of Queensland Law Journal, 22, pp. 1 - 19, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UQLawJl/2002/1.html

Davis M, 2002, 'Book Review: "Sceptical Essays on Human Rights Edited By T Campbell, K D Ewing and A Tomkins"', Adelaide Law Review, 23, pp. 183 - 188, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AdelLawRw/2002/11.html

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